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I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
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In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
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I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
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Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.
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We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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